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Crystal Parikh

Professor of English and Social & Cultural Analysis; Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute

Education

  • 2000 Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, College Park
  • 1995 M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, College Park
  • 1992 B.A., University of Miami

Areas of Research/Interest

Asian American literature and studies; Latino/Chicano literature and studies; feminist and critical race theory; postcolonial studies; twentieth-century American literature

Bio

Crystal Parikh is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis and English at New York

University. She specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature

and culture, with a focus on comparative race and ethnic studies, as well as ethical and

political theory, and gender and sexuality, diaspora, and postcolonial studies. In addition

to numerous essays and articles, Professor Parikh has published Writing Human

Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (University of Minnesota Press,

2017), which was the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Award for

Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Literature. She is also the

author of An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literature

and Culture (Fordham University Press, 2009), which was awarded the Modern

Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and

Chicano Literary Studies. She is the editor of the recently published The Cambridge

Companion to Human Rights and Literature (2019), and she co-edited with Daniel Y.

Kim, The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (2015). Professor Parikh

is the Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

Publications

  • The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
    Cambridge University Press, 2019
    Book cover
  • Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color
    University of Minnesota Press, 2017
    writing human rights
  • An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literature and Culture. .
    (Winner of the MLA Prize in United States Latina & Latino and Chicana & Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies.)
    Fordham University Press, 2009
  • Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature.
    Co-edited with Daniel Y. Kim.
    Cambridge University Press. August 2015
  • Co-authored with Helena Grice. ”Feminist and Queer Interventions into Asian American Literary Studies.” Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature. Eds. Daniel Y. Kim and Crystal Parikh. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • “Perpetrating Ourselves: Reading Human Rights and Responsibility Otherwise.” International Journal of Human Rights. (Special Issue: “Interrogating the Perpetrator”) 9:15 (2015): 648-661.
  • “Bringing Human Rights to Bear in American Literature." Routledge Companion to Human Rights and Literature. Eds. Alexandra Moore and Sophia McClennen, 2015. 380-388
  • “Minority.” Keywords for Asian American Studies. Eds. Cathy Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong. New York University Press, 2015. 161-164.
  • “‘Come Almost Home’: Human Rights and the Return of Minor Subjects.” The Journal of Human Rights (Special Issue: “Humanitarianism and Responsibility”). 12:1 (March 2013): 121-137.
  • “Being Well: The Right to Health in Asian American Literature.” Amerasia (Special Issue: “The State of Illness and Disability in Asian America”). 39:1 (March 2013): 33-47.
  • “Regular Revolutions: Feminist Travels in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies.” The Journal of Transnational American Studies 3 (2011): 1-28.
  • “Writing the Borderline Subject of War in Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student.” The Southern Quarterly (Special Issue: “The New South in a Global Context.”) 46 (Spring 2009): 47-66.
  • "'The Most Outrageous Masquerade': Queering Asian American Masculinity." Modern Fiction Studies 48 (Winter 2002): 858-898.
  • "The Passion: The Betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee" in Racial (Trans)Formations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States, ed. Nicholas De Genova. Duke UP, 2006.
  • “Ethnic America Undercover: The Intellectual and Minority Discourse.” Contemporary Literature 43: (Summer 2002): 249-284.
  • “Dissolution: Fragmented Narratives of Interruption, Isolation, Suspense, and Precarity.” Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Fiction. Ed. Joshua L. Miller. (forthcoming)
  • “Hemispheric Asian Americas.” Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996. Eds. Asha Nadkarni and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)
  • “Rights.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York University Press, 2020. 205-209.
  • “The Unyielding Earth: Women of Color Feminism and Cold War Fictions.” Neocolonial Fictions: U.S. Literatures of the Global Cold War. Eds. Steven W. Belletto and Joseph Keith. University of Iowa Press, 2019. 116-135.
  • “‘What an India he’d found!’: Betrayals in Comparative American Studies.” The Scholar & Feminist Online 14:3 (Special Issue: “Afro-Asian Feminist and Queer Formations.” 14:3 (January 2018). [http://sfonline.barnard.edu/feminist-and-queer-afro-asian-formations/]
  • “The Innocents: Reading Refugees in National Culture and Diasporic Literatures.” Humanity (Dossier: “Contemporary Refugee Timespaces.”) 8:3 (December 2017). 547-49.
  • “American Good Life, the Bandung Spirit and a Human Rights Record.” Negative Cosmopolitanism: Abjection, Power, Biopolitics. Eds. Terri Tomsky and Eddy Kent. McGill-Queens University Press, 2017. 29-42.
  • “Transnational Feminism.” The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature. Ed. Yogita Goyal. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 221-236.
  • Co-authored with Nicholas Matlin. “Human Rights and the Tautology of Human Being.” Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. Eds. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis. MLA Options for Teaching Series. 2015. 27-38.